Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonTalent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonTears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonA German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington